The two compositions, “Calypso” by Suzanne Vega and The Odyssey by Homer, are two different ways of telling the story about the relationship between Calypso and Odysseus. In each piece Calypso is very similar, yet very different. The song, “Calypso,” is a about Calypso letting Odysseus go. It seems she believes that she kept him all that time and she needs to let him leave. Calypso says, “I will stand upon the shore with a clean heart,” when she says “with a clean heart”, she refers to her decision that she is going to let Odysseus go and be free. Repeating the phrase “I let him go” at the end of every stanza can be noticed by one in the song. The repetitiveness shows that Calypso may be regretting her decision, but also knows she must do it.
Many years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still hasn’t returned home to Ithaka. Many believe that he is dead, but the author lets us know that he is being held as a sex captive on the goddess Kalypso’s island. Kalypso has no plans of letting him go to return home either.
In Homer’s, The Odyssey, the character, Calypso, is represented by the archetype of the temptress. For example, in the given quote, “Then each one’s hands went out on each one’s feast until they had had their pleasure.” , demonstrates the fact that Calypso has the power to seduce Odysseus even if he had no feelings towards her. As in every other story featuring a temptress, Calypso has power to attract the hero. Her intentions lie in entrapping Odysseus in order to gain company. Often because of the intentions to trap, temptresses are seemingly dangerous or deviant or evil in the eyes of their prey. Care for Odysseus is shown by Calypso by her frequent attempts to seduce him, but also when she saves him and his men from the sea monsters,
Calypos is described as "lawless and inhuman,” loud, extraordinarily strong, inhospitable and both murderous and violent. The Cyclops also moves a stone over the opening of his cave, which Odysseus says "two and twenty strong four-wheeled wagons" would be unable to move. The story of Odyssey Polyphemus is intact the cyclops ,he has one eye and is nasty and mean disposition. In actuality, there isn’t much to cyclops other than being ruthless. This quote clearly describes Polyphemus’s nature and displayes him as someone who can’t be trusted;‘“Give me still more, frely, and tell me your name straightway now, so I can give you a guest present to make you happy.”’
The use of just laws was first abided by Dr. King in his “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” In this letter, he mentions the necessity of just laws in society and how individuals are morally obliged to follow them. He also makes a clear distinction between “just” and “unjust” laws, further advocating his beliefs. Dr. King defines the two different laws in his interpretation of what they actually mean in society. A just law is a human-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. In other words, a law that can uplift the personality of an individual is a law that is just. Also, citizens also have their moral responsibility in a constitutional democratic society to obey and abide by the laws of the country. In comparison to just
Despite their many variances, the success of the battles was similar and beneficial. The Greeks were able to end their ten-year long war. Hastein was able to successful raid Luna. The Allies were able to turn the war into their favor. These outcomes changed history on some level, but who earns the credit for their successes? The leaders involved may have brought the victory home, but they had to attack in such a way that their troops had time to win. All three leaders, were cunning and creative. Odysseus, the Greek behind the original Trojan horse, later used his ideas to get home in Homer’s The Odyssey. Hastein the Viking, is known to be a very deceitful man in the pages of history of which he appears (Holman). Eisenhower combined
Throughout William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar and Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, loyalty is strongly presented as a major motif. In both texts, loyalty is highly valued as one of the most important traits to a person’s character. Not only do the loyal characters receive better fates, but those who are not loyal are punished for the actions, usually through revenge. In Julius Caesar, the characters that remained loyal to Caesar are the few who wind up alive at the end of the play, and in The Odyssey, those who remained loyal to Odysseus were rewarded by Odysseus, and those who weren’t were killed.
Calypso fell in love with Odysseus and wants to marry him. She was possessed by her ‘love’ for Odysseus. Although Odysseus did not
While a multitude of factors creates of the human condition, there is none as certain as our mortality. In fact, the aspect of mortality is so essential to the human condition that without it, we could not be deemed truly human – man is not perfect, and his imperfections are conceived in the form of our vulnerabilities to suffering and death. Both Homer’s The Odyssey and Sophocles’s Oedipus the King place emphasis on the prevalence of mortality and human vulnerabilities throughout each narrative, creating a profound discussion concerning the inevitability of death and the manner in which we must make meaning of our own oblivion.
Sing I me, Muse, and through me tell the story of the lady nymph goddess Calypso. Oh so beautiful and immortal who lives in the sea- hollowed caves on the island Ogygia. She craved the hero of Troy, king of Ithaka, son of Laertes, a mortal and took him as her own. Nine long years they spent on the island together.
In the Hebrew Bible and The Odyssey there are heroic figures that play an important role through out each of the books. These heroic figures from the Bible and The Odyssey have many similarities and differences that reflect the different cultures they are from. These heroes are called upon by greater beings, such as gods, to complete difficult journeys and or tasks that the god has made them destined to complete. Each of these legendary heroes demonstrates a particular culture’s needs. Through these journeys and or tasks they are forced to overcome challenging obstacles and make sacrifices.
Something common in the two epics about their journey is that both Odysseus and Aeneas are distracted from what they are destined for; by the lust and arousal of women obsessed by love. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is first encountered by Circe’s love and then by the over obsession of Calypso. Circe is an immortal goddess and enchantress who is extremely beautiful and sexy. In the Aeneid, Aeneas after reaching Carthage meets Dido who is a mortal woman and queen of Carthage. She is foreign, exotic, mysterious, sexually and politically potent. Talking about Odysseus, we see that Odysseus is approached by Hermes who warns him against Circe. She offers Odysseus to have sex with her and it happens. Odysseus now distracted, lives with her on her island for a year until his comrades remind him of Ithaca. The longest delay in Odysseus’ journey is at the island of Calypso. Calypso lives alone on an exotic and beautiful island. After Odysseus crash lands here, he is rescued by her and held captive for seven years. Calypso loves Odysseus unconditionally and offers him immortality. Calypso could never impress Odysseus like Circe did. But in the Aeneid, we see that Aeneas loses sight of his mission of founding Rome in Italy. Dido makes Aeneas forget about what he is destined for as they fall in love. Both Dido and Circe keep men away from their
This short essay will identify five traditional epic characteristics that are evident in both the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Jesus went with his apostles to the northern section of Israel, the gentile cities of Tyre and Sidon. While there, a Canaanite woman from that region approached them crying: “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” Even though Jesus heard her he did not say a word to her. St. John Chrysostom in his Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew tells us that He did not answer her because He knew the great gift that He would give her. His silence wasn’t to ignore her, but so that she would persevere and through persistence build humility which would “reveal the treasure laid up in her”—that of knowing her relationship with God.
On the other hand in the Odyssey, Ulysses is released from Calypso’s island thanks to gods’ pray towards the nymph Calypso.
Both the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘1001 Nights’ feature male protagonists who traverse the seas, and the concepts and themes of men seafaring is common throughout most canonical texts. For example, the allusion of Odysseus’ difficult journey is made when a minor male character in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’ describes his seafaring adventures as being ‘positively Ulyssian’ (‘Ulyssian’ thus being a reference the Roman naming of Odysseus) (pg 29). Furthermore, both texts share themes, such as: seafaring, the supernatural, trials and tribulations, tradition, belief systems, and the geographical setting and pride in the protagonist’s home city play a key role to the overarching plots of the texts in the sense of the protagonist’s endurance and motivation to both leave and return home. Likewise, the supernatural is used to further the plot of both texts.